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My 3 and a half bottles pale into insignificance, but I always have a Parker 45 filled with Sapphire, that I write letters to my penpals with, and I have an unboxed bottle of ruby that I no longer want or use, but haven't bothered to sell.

 

I bought some of the Organics Studio Cuddles Flo-Plus ink additive and add one tiny drop to a vial full. It makes it magically better to use and it doesn't dry out in my pens.

 

I added one tiny drop to the bottle of ruby, and now when you really shake it up, it has bubbles in it. It's potent stuff!

 

For those who don't have PPS you can make ink of the same shade using Diamine Majestic Blue and Diamine Sapphire Blue. The exact recipe is on FPN somewhere.

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Hello,

 

The following is the picture of my PP collection, tried to arrange them to say FPN, but were not enough so just did it this way.

 

http://s5.postimg.org/pqhpsgl2f/PP_collection.jpg

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Best regards.

 

I am totally impressed.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I am totally impressed.

It's amazing how one keeps on wanting more.

 

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I dearly want some of the emerald or sapphire, but there's no one here to trade with. Anybody up for a nearly full bottle of Stormy Grey for half a bottle of either?

Physician- signing your scripts with Skrips!


I'm so tough I vacation in Detroit.

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Too bad you were not at the San Francisco Pen Show.

The Penman inks were in the ink samples to try out.

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San Francisco Pen Show - August 28-30, 2020 - Redwood City, California

www.SFPenShow.com

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wow! wonderful collections displayed here. to reduce my envy, i am trying to convince myself that 2 or 3 bottles are real, the remainder in the pictures are created using cgi techniques as is done for large numbers of movie extras.

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wow! wonderful collections displayed here. to reduce my envy, i am trying to convince myself that 2 or 3 bottles are real, the remainder in the pictures are created using cgi techniques as is done for large numbers of movie extras.

 

NO it is ALL an illusion done with Photoshop.

San Francisco Pen Show - August 28-30, 2020 - Redwood City, California

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NO it is ALL an illusion done with Photoshop.

That helps. Thanks!

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Hello,

 

The only way I can think of trading a bottle of PPE or PPS is with a pen that I want, my collection is new and short of many (iconic/must have) pens.

 

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I was given a few cartridges of PPS, and I added a bit of water to top off one of the carts before using it in a 75 (Parker) (or 45?). I liked the color diluted. I kept filling the cart with water as I used the ink, and the color got prettier and prettier, albeit less dark.

 

I ended up emptying the remaining carts into a sample vial and adding a bit of water, and that's what I have until I use it up.

 

ETA: I'm satisfied with what I have, appreciate the gift of it, but I'm pretty sure that other special inks are or will be available always. (As long as I can get my Noodler's Black, I'm good, hahaha. <smiley>)

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I was given a few cartridges of PPS, and I added a bit of water to top off one of the carts before using it in a 75 (Parker) (or 45?). I liked the color diluted. I kept filling the cart with water as I used the ink, and the color got prettier and prettier, albeit less dark.

 

I ended up emptying the remaining carts into a sample vial and adding a bit of water, and that's what I have until I use it up.

 

ETA: I'm satisfied with what I have, appreciate the gift of it, but I'm pretty sure that other special inks are or will be available always. (As long as I can get my Noodler's Black, I'm good, hahaha. <smiley>)

 

This is me jealous. :puddle: I can't get more than a bottle of Quink here, Noodler's is out of the question, and the nearest pen show I can find is an hour plus drive, at a minimum.

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I'm so tough I vacation in Detroit.

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I can't get more than a bottle of Quink here, Noodler's is out of the question, and the nearest pen show I can find is an hour plus drive, at a minimum.

 

The SF Show 2 weeks ago was a 10 hour drive up and an 8 hour drive back. Get with the program!

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Hello,

 

So will everyone use the PP inks in their pens???

 

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So will everyone use the PP inks in their pens???

 

I don't know about everyone, but I do.

"When Men differ in Opinion, both Sides ought equally to have the Advantage of being heard by the Publick; and that when Truth and Error have fair Play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter."

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I don't know about everyone, but I do.

Hello,

 

Was wondering about everyone else.

 

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Recite, and your Lord is the most Generous  Who taught by the pen

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Hello,

 

Was wondering about everyone else.

 

Best regards.

I use PP Ruby in any of my modern pens, and selectively in some of my more free-flowing vintage pens.

Regards, greg

Don't feel bad. I'm old; I'm meh about most things.

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I have used them all, having one bottle of each color (save ebony) at one point or another. Ruby is one of my favorite burgundy inks, really nice.

 

As the Colorado pen show this afternoon I was just given a full, unopened bottle of ebony as a gift for buying a Black and Pearl Duofold set so I'll get a chance to try it out as well now.

 

The inks are special, and Sapphire deserves the praise it gets....but that said, there's just something about a fine product that has been discontinued for years, has become legendary and comes in those swell bottles to boot. It all adds to the mystique!

 

Jack

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Parker Penman Sapphire, given its reputation, is an ink that EoC has wanted to try for a while. As it is no longer produced, it looks like EoC is out of luck. Fortunately there are plenty of other inks out there for the likes of EoC

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Hello,

 

Well Ebony is the only color that I don't have, and that's because of me refusing to buy it, the guy asked which colors I want so told him all but ebony, not sure what I was thinking but that's what happened, but will still go back to him and get few bottles.

 

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Runnin_Ute Museum Piece

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With a Parker 45 Flighter I bought recently came 2 cartridges of ink. One is stamped "Sapphire". I have yet to use it.

Brad

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind" - Rudyard Kipling
"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." - Mark Twain

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